News WATCH OUT! Some WD My Book users are finding their data deleted

[Dan Goodin]

Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug their devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world.

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[dosborne]

Not terribly surprising since "The My Book Live device received its final firmware update in 2015."
And, since many it seems were owned by a botnet, just as well that they got wiped.

 

[thiggins]

Follow up article. Was a 0 day exploit.

Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices [Updated]

Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data.

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